Re: Update was Re: Unsatisfied depends in slink main

1999-01-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
Jason Gunthorpe writes: >On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Dale Scheetz wrote: >> While what you say is in principle true, in practice it doesn't always >> work out that way. My experience has been that many problems experienced >> by our users, and much of the fault on "broken" CDs have been the result >> of o

Re: Update was Re: Unsatisfied depends in slink main

1999-01-24 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > Of course this is not at all true, the package files are generated > > directly from the .deb files daily they are never wrong, if they were then > > our tools would stop working! > > While what you say is in principle true, in practice it doesn't alw

Re: Update was Re: Unsatisfied depends in slink main

1999-01-23 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > I should have made it clear that my intent was to find any and all > > references, that could not be satisfied in the supplied set of packages. > > As the Packages file is the "weak link" in the distri

Re: Update was Re: Unsatisfied depends in slink main

1999-01-23 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Dale Scheetz wrote: > I should have made it clear that my intent was to find any and all > references, that could not be satisfied in the supplied set of packages. > As the Packages file is the "weak link" in the distribution method, I > decided to interrogate the actual pack

Update was Re: Unsatisfied depends in slink main

1999-01-23 Thread Dale Scheetz
First I want to thank everyone for their replies. Second I want to appologize for my incorrect phrasing of the subject line. Several people have pointed out that there are very nice packages that deal with dependencies, while others pointed out that the other "or"ed elements satisfied the depende